[alt-photo] Re: MY FIRST BOOK LAUNCH

[Christina Anderson]

That is so cool, Bob! For sure let us know the Amazon release, as I use them frequently.
It will make us all want to come down to Barbados for an historical tour!
Chris
Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Nov 28, 2011, at 6:30 AM, BOB KISS wrote:

> DEAR LIST,
> 
>            I am proud to announce that this Tuesday evening, November 29th,
> from 6 to 8 pm we will be launching my first book of fine art photographs,
> BARBADOS CHATTEL HOUSES.  The venue is the lovely, old Main Guard building
> at the Historical Garrison Savannah here in Barbados.
> http://www.visitbarbados.org/Listing.aspx?lid=1986
> <http://www.visitbarbados.org/Listing.aspx?lid=1986&catid=17> &catid=17
> 
>            There are more than 115 black and white photos of chattel houses
> which I shot with my 8X10 camera, Tri-x in PMK.  The text was written by a
> true renaissance man, Professor Henry Fraser, who is President Emeritus of
> the Barbados National Trust, a historian of Caribbean architecture with half
> a dozen books to his credit, a pharmacologist, recently retired dean of the
> University of the West Indies newly formed College of Medicine on the
> Barbados (a.k.a. Cave Hill) campus, and founder of the Barbados Infectious
> Diseases Institute.  And he is an accomplished oil painter!  Busy guy!
> 
>            I scanned the 8X10 negs myself with my Epson V750 PRO and
> Frotoshopped and prepared the CMYK Tiff files so the printer could print the
> book in four-color holding the tones and nice warm color that I wanted.  All
> of the photos in the book are also offered as platinum-palladium prints in
> three sizes.  
> 
>            The publisher is based in Trinidad and the book was printed in
> Hong Kong.  The photos have a nice "cross over" from fine art to documentary
> photography.  I shot my first chattel house in 1996 so I feel are as much
> relief as pride!    ;-))
> 
>            The publisher will be arranging to put the book on Amazon and I
> will let all know when it is done.hopefully soon, before Xmas.
> 
>                        CHEERS!
> 
>                                    BOB
> 
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> 
> Please check my website:  <http://www.bobkiss.com/> http://www.bobkiss.com/
> 
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> 
> "Live as if you are going to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you are going to
> live forever".  Mahatma Gandhi
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